800 YEARS THROWN AWAY - 1

809 years ago in the year 1215, John, King of England, signed a document that set in English law and governance the principle and custom that no one, not even the King, is above the law. That was the Magna Carta, the Great Charter.

You might wonder whether, in an age of absolute monarchs anointed by God who literally owned the countries they ruled, the people and lesser authorities took this radical notion seriously.